Page 54 of My First Mistake
Pleasure coils deep in my core, spiraling through my limbs and back again. White-hot fire and ecstasy permeating through every cell of my body, and all he’s doing is fucking me to a slow, relentless rhythm and growling filthy things in my ear.
“Listen to how wet you are for me. You love my cock, don’t you?”
“Yes!” Starlight explodes in my vision and I rake my nails down his back, bucking my hips to take more of him.
“Addie,” he growls out my name, finally picking up his pace as he thrusts inside me, until we both hurtle over the edge together.
He stays inside me, each of us panting for breath as we come down the high. Then he rests his forehead against mine. “I love you, Addison.”
My heart practically bursts with happiness, but what if none of this is real? I don’t trust my instincts where he’s concerned. “That’s just the orgasm talking.”
“I know you make me come pretty hard, baby.” He moves inside me and aftershocks of pleasure pulse through my core.“But I’m still in full control of my senses. I fell in love with you a long time ago, Firefly, and I never fucking stopped.”
“So, why didn’t you ever come back, Chase?”
“You threatened to stake me if I ever did, remember?”
“Like you ever let anyone tell you what to do in your whole life?”
“Nobody except you it seems.” He kisses me softly. “But I didn’t come back because I knew how much I’d hurt you, Addie. And you were right about so many things, about how I was wasting my life?—”
“I had no right to say any of that to you.”
“Yeah, you did. And it was the kick in the ass I needed. Because of you I finally stopped thinking about what I wanted to do and I made something of myself. And I didn’t want to come to Juniper Ridge until I was the man you deserved. I’m not sure I’ll ever be good enough to deserve you…”
“You are, Chase.”
“I really want to be, Addie.”
“I’ve been in love with you for as long as I can remember. I don’t think I ever stopped either.”
“We’ll make this work, I promise. I can’t lose you again.”
I really want to believe him, but I’m also a realist. Chase’s life in LA is as important to him as mine in Juniper Ridge is to me. How are we going to combine the two successfully and not resent the other for it? “I don’t want to lose you either, but we live on opposite sides of the country.”
“I’ll find a way to make it work, baby. I promise. Do you trust me?”
I stare into his deep blue eyes and know there’s only one answer. “Yes, I trust you.”
He seals his lips over mine and then he kisses me like it might be the last time we ever do this, even if we both hope that it’s not.
Chapter 33
Chase
# Never make promises you can’t keep
It fucking kills me to say goodbye to her. To stare into her tear-filled eyes and make a promise that I have no way of proving I’m going to keep. I asked her to trust me and I believe that she does, but I have a sinking feeling she’s thinking I’m going to fly back to LA and forget all about her.
“I’ll call you as soon as I land, okay?”
She nods, biting down on her lip.
“You and Angelina be careful driving back, won’t you?” She’s a perfectly good driver, swerving into Kelly’s Superstore aside, but I’m still going to worry about her until she’s home safe.
That at least gets me a smile. “We will. Say hi to Faraday for me, won’t you?”
I laugh, knowing I will never not see that car and call it that now. What the hell has she done to me? “Yeah, I will.”
